Scotland has a new local government, led by the leader of the SNP independence activists Nicola Sturgeon and supported by the Greens like the previous one, but with the unprecedented direct entry as junior partner of the ecological training, which in the past had limited itself to external support. An absolute novelty in the whole of the UK
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The team will see the presence of undersecretaries, albeit not of Green ministers, and will guarantee the SNP to consolidate its control of the Edinburgh assembly after having revived the local elections of last May while missing a seat, however, the objective of an absolute majority. . The deal, illustrated by Sturgeon and co-leaders of the Scottish branch of the British Greens, Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie, includes a
joint commitment to seek a post-Brexit referendum on secession from the rest of the Kingdom by the middle of the legislature. regional current, i.e. in 2024, but only on condition that in the meantime the emergency linked to the pandemic is completely overcome
. A less clear-cut and close indication than what the SNP had evoked in the election campaign, but still central to the joint platform, in spite of the 'no' opposed so far by the central London government of Boris Johnson (whose constitutional approval is necessary) to any new referendum hypothesis at least until after the conclusion of the legislation in progress.
The program also includes proposals to accelerate environmental strategies against climate change, in a sort of more advanced challenge (on paper) to the same Green policy promised by the Johnson government at the national level in view of the CoP26 climate conference that will be hosted in November. British in Scotland, in Glasgow. On this front, however, Sturgeon has imposed on the greens a less radical attitude towards the oil and gas industry, historically important in the northern territory: by signing a commitment to review the licenses for extraction (linked to the containment of harmful emissions ), but not to set any deadline for their cancellation tout court.